Im 5 weeks and 2 days pregnant (still in shock!!) and i cant stop peeing on sticks to double check my HCG levels are still rising. Every day the tests are getting darker or coming up positive even faster than the day before but i dont quite believe that everything will be okay. I cannot imagine that in 8 months time i will have a newborn, something must go wrong, it has to, it always has with me. My only way of not breaking down in tears with fear is to pee on all the sticks lol. Tell me im not crazy?

Not crazy, I got a bfp last night, I have pee’d on 6 test so far, and I’m going to buy a digital tonight. I have some more internet cheapies coming in the mail, I will probably pee on those too, just for good measure :p

@bouncybee: 160 tests seems really extreme. I legit peed on 2 and am just about 36w now. I would talk to your doctor- it seems like you have some sort of fixation or obsession. Peeing on a test is not going to keep you pregnant.

@mamadingdong: Oh no its not like that, i had my implant out 15th july and was due on in august and i felt pregnant so i bought some tests and did around 3 a day convinced that i was pregnant when i wasnt it was just my hormones. I finally came on in september and stopped testing until i was 10dpo, then i got my positive but it was so faint it worried me so i did a few a day trying to see the line get darker and stop myself worrying. Then i did miscarry at 4+5. Then i was told to see if all the hcg had gone out of my system after 2 weeks so i tested and there was a line there. so i kept testing until it was gone just incase i needed a procedure to have anything removed. all negative by 3 weeks after m/c. Then i felt myself ovulate and i thought i felt implantation at 6dpo so like a crazy person i started testing at 7dpo knowing it would be negative but by 10dpo again i got my bfp. Last time my tests didnt get darker at all and i miscarried and my doctors dont like checking hcg levels so i have no other way of knowing until my scan if everything is okay. Im now 5+2 and i am slowing down with the testing only tested once since saturday and it was very dark so im not likely going to test any more but it was more for peace of mind than being obsessed.

After I found out I was pregnant, I poased for weeks – basically until I started to get really bad morning sickness. I did it partially because I was worried, partly because it made me happy to get a BFP every morning! I now have a 5 month old.

@bouncybee: Haha I think it is funny, not crazy, BUT I do want to be realistic (even though I’m going to be the Debbie Downer of the group) and say that there are some ladies who had a miscarriage and was still testing positive so it is possible to still get positives even if you have miscarried, so I would stop testing since it wouldn’t make much sense.

I tested one more time the next day just to make sure I was pregnant and then I went in for my blood test. You shouldn’t have a reason to worry unless you are cramping and bleeding.

I got my BFP on a frer, then two weeks later I was cleaning out my bsthroom and found an old cheapie test in the back so I took it for fun lol those are the only time! But I definitely don’t think it’s odd that you keep testing, I think it’s common. Once you hear the heart beat or see the ultrasound you’ll feel better!

Yep, I had about 1-2 dozen cheapie HTP left (from the OPK purchase) so I peed on one a day until I ran out. It was fun to see the lines get darker, but also a relief when I ran out that I wan’t tempted to keep POAS. Just be warned, once you reach a certain HCG level, the lines start to get lighter (I forget what that HCG level is…)

I peed on three sticks the day I got my BFP, because the first two were blue dye tests and I got myself nervous. I was told my HCG levels were very low, and while I was waiting for the redraw results I peed on one more to calm myself.

Since getting my BFP, I used the other FRER (2 pack), and some internet cheapies. I bought 50 over ebay and of course got a BFP BEFORE they arrived. I’ve probably used about 5 of them, one just out of curiousity to see how it compared to the FRER, and then about four times since then until the baby started moving. And even then I just wanted to see if the lines would get so dark that they took away dye from the control line :p So for the most part I’ve done it for ***** & giggles :p

@bouncybee: I POAS until 24dpo (not every day but a lot of the time) – I don’t know when it happens in pregnancy but eventually you’ll have so much HCG in your system that the postitive test line will start getting lighter. (I think this can happen towards the end of the first trimester). So be mindful of that. Also once the pregnancy symptoms really ramp up you’ll probably feel better about the sticky baby =) HH 9 months to you!